Question

Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.

Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.

“Surgery(外科手術(shù))”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows, you can get at least 5cm taller!”

At that point, I was shocked. I am short, I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦) just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!

It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.

No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.

1.We can know from the passage that the author works as ______.

A. a doctor         B. a model       C. a teacher        D. a reporter

2.Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to______.

A. marry a better man or woman           

B. become a model

C. get an advantage over others in job-hunt

D. attract more admirers

3.According to the passage, the author believes that ______.

A. everyone should pursue perfection, whatever the cost is

B. it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs

C. media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery

D. it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career

4. What does the author think of his height?

A. He hates to be called a short man.

B. He tries to increase his height through surgery.

C. He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact.

D. He just accepts it as it is

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.C

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：如今電影、雜志等各種媒體以及美容、瘦身的各類廣告充斥著人們的生活，給人們一種誤導(dǎo)：美是值得花費任何代價都要追求的。甚至于作者在和學(xué)生談?wù)摦厴I(yè)打算的時候都吃驚的發(fā)現(xiàn)，學(xué)生們都想通過整形來獲得外表上的優(yōu)勢，以期望在工作面試時靠出眾的外表而脫穎而出。

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2. others when it comes to getting a job.當(dāng)說到找工作，似乎今天越來越多的畢業(yè)生愿意接受整容手術(shù)讓他們比別人有優(yōu)勢�？芍�現(xiàn)在很多年輕人都想通過整形手術(shù)來獲得超過別人的資本，所以答案選C。

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考點：考查社會百態(tài)類短文閱讀。